Neil deGrasse Tyson’s new book, Space Chronicles: Facing The Ultimate Frontier, at times, reads like an updated version of some…
For those fans of Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot, there's finally a successor volume to that. Neil deGrasse Tyson's Space Chronicles: Facing…
Astrophotographer Rick Ellis from Toronto, Canada recently imaged a Sun pillar against a truly fiery sunset. Sun pillars are a…
This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by that old cheapskate, Steve Nerlich from Cheap Astronomy. Click here to read…
The massive tornado that tore through parts of Oklahoma on My 20, 2013 left a 32 km (20-mile) swath of…
As the first eclipse season of 2013 comes to an end this weekend, an extremely subtle lunar eclipse occurs on the night…
Venus and Mars may be all right tonight, but there's still a lot we don't understand about these planets. Why…
NASA’s Curiosity rover has just successfully bored inside ancient rocks on Mars for only the 2nd time since her nail…
Admittedly, I'm partial to Randy Halverson's night sky photography from South Dakota. Having grown up in neighboring North Dakota myself,…
The Earth turns once on its axis in a day. How fast are you actually going when you're standing on…